This weekend i have watched Bath v Gloucester and Pirates v Bristol live and both have been close encounters,i am not expecting the same tonight.
Worcester will have a first tean/second team out against our kids tonight.
Worcester first team players to watch out for tonight.
Adam Balding,Neil Best,Kai Horstmann
,Chris Fortey and many more.Add to this Ollie Hayes and James Currie both our ex academy boys,I expect a long night for our boys.
Are we likely to see any of our first teamers coming back from injury?Moody,Fearns,Eastmond,or Ovens,Scott, kpn,Lilley,Beatie,Belly,Cuthbert and Cook who never played this weekend or players that only played a few mins on Saturday,Beech,Mercer.

While I appreciate the club not charging for these games,unlike all other clubs,please start to make it a combative game not a mismatch.
Worcester prepared for this game by playing a friendly last week against a strong Sale side.
Predict 7-50 loss depending on when Worcester use their academy boys
Winning breeds winners.

It is not the best preparation for being thrown into a First XV to be playing for a United team that gets a drubbing every outing. Winning is a habit.
The malaise seems to go right down to the youth side. I know a lad who had recently joined them and so far has found them a disorganised shambles.

Take Scott from list above as I just found out he played for London Welsh at the weekend and after nervous start,improved as the game went on and had a partin the welsh 4th try.
Moss could also play tonight as not sure if he played at Tje weekend,we really could put out strong second team,I shall wait and see if we do.The pull of watching tonight will be hard for me not to go but I am considering not going and that doesn't happen very often.

As said before winning is a habit and we NEED to win some games, ANY games and this is an opportunity to do just that!

For crying out loud Bath Rugby put out a team of fringe first teamers who had no or hardly anygame time on saturday, returning to fitness guys and SOME acadamy lads. Instill them with the knowledge that their futures rely on WINNINg the game by any methods required and lets really give it a go and play with passion, commitment and hopefully some skill.

Worcester know the ebenfit of such requirements as instilled by Richard Hill who probably would give his right arm for what we have in playing talent (on paper) and facilities and funds enjoyed by us.

We need to play and win but obviously not with a side of youngsters. How do other clubs manage to keep their players fit so much better than us? What is going wrong with the training and conditioning of our players?

I recognise nearly all of those names in the Bath team. Over half have been around the Bath set-up for a couple of years now. Not much 1st team experience and no winning vibe with United this year, but I'm not going to write them off. If we can maintain some posession, which has been a real problem this year in United (and in the 1sts!!), we can and should win at home. Come on you Bath!

The problem is thought that I recognise the names of roguhly half the Bath line-up because they're my team and I recognise the names of many of the academy boys but I also recognise half the Woos squad... because they play regularly in the Prem. If they don't beast us I'll be very suprised.

JaydeeoneI recognise nearly all of those names in the Bath team. Over half have been around the Bath set-up for a couple of years now. Not much 1st team experience and no winning vibe with United this year, but I'm not going to write them off. If we can maintain some posession, which has been a real problem this year in United (and in the 1sts!!), we can and should win at home. Come on you Bath!

Ha hah hahaha aha,what planet are you on.I will glady donate 50quid to your charity of choice if we win,no sorry if we are close.
We will get smashed in the scrum,and walked around in the backs.it's going to be one way traffic all game.

JJ Kilmartin is good and played in the 7s last July. A lot of people rate Gabbitas who is on the bench. Joe Buckle is a developing talent. Nice to see Kane train as captain but I feel we have a youth squad out there while Wuss have selected an experienced 2nd xv.

That is more than a 'second xv' eg Horstman was captain for part of last season and has been injured for much of this. Ceri Jones was first choice loose head at Quins before Marler and Arr is a regular first team player as is Carlisle.

It will be a procession...... and the Train is going to have his work cut out to just stand up let alone go forward in the tight.

JaydeeoneI recognise nearly all of those names in the Bath team. Over half have been around the Bath set-up for a couple of years now. Not much 1st team experience and no winning vibe with United this year, but I'm not going to write them off. If we can maintain some posession, which has been a real problem this year in United (and in the 1sts!!), we can and should win at home. Come on you Bath!

Ha hah hahaha aha,what planet are you on.I will glady donate 50quid to your charity of choice if we win,no sorry if we are close.
We will get smashed in the scrum,and walked around in the backs.it's going to be one way traffic all game.

To be clear, when I say "we can and should win at home", I'm talking aspirationally. I'm also making the point that these guys have played together before. The scoreline predictions are probably not too far off from a statistical likelyhood, but I'm not a betting man, so you can do what you wish with your £50 Brian. It's very likely we'll lose - for the reason's you very knowledgebly put forward.

If we are to stand a chance of staying in the game, we need to avoid giving them too much ball from set pieces. I genuinely believe that we have some talented young players in that squad and I'm genuinely not too enthused by the players in the Warriors team.

Because it's Monday, I'm in a good mood and I'm a natural contrarian I'll stick my neck on the line and say we'll keep the score within 20!

I take it you mean by twenty in the first half hour,we will only get in their half only from the restarts.
Retain ball haha how.have you seen their back row,their front row would give Perenise and Catt a work over.same for the back row. Their backs against the Uni/academy,need I go on.I wasn't going to go but I shall just to clap them off.

Appears so,the game should have been called off,it's only a friendly,until we could put out a side that would at least give them a game.I have never minded losing as long as you give your all and that's all we can ask of them.Still cant make up my mind to go or not.

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